Almost everyone on the internet has encounter Goatse at some point. It is the internet’s first ever shock site and picture consists of a man bending over and stretching his anus in an innocent open-anus gesture. The long and hilarious story of Goatse can be found here. Basically in 2002 a guy put the image up on the domain goatse.cx and it spread like wildfire. The image was repeatedly posted on the Oprah Winfrey Message Boards in the Soul Stories board with such vigor that the message board was eventually shut down.

Kirk Johnson: The Goatse Man

After years of diligent research the man behind Goatse was eventually tracked down. Through professional internet detective work he was identified as Kirk Johnson by the gold ring on his finger and the mole on his ass. Kirk posts pictures and videos of himself stretching his anus and fisting himself at PornHub. He also posts regularly on the newsgroup alt.binaries.erotica.male.anal. He is a true internet Power User.